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레슬링 역사가들은 Ed "Strangler" Lewis나 Frank Gotch를 미국 최고의 프로레슬러로 간주합니다.. 우리는 Frank Gotch의 초기 경력에 대해 꽤 많이 알고 있지만, 우리는 Ed "Strangler" Lewis의 초기 경력에 대해 훨씬 덜 알고 있습니다..

다양한 소식통에 따르면 루이스는 겨우 14세였을 때 카니발에서 캐치캐치 레슬링을 배웠다고 합니다.. Lewis was born Robert Friedrich on June 30, 1891, in tiny Nekoosa, Wisconsin. 에 1900, Nekoosa boasted a population of 745 people.

로 1910, when Friedrich wrestled his earliest professional wrestling match I can find, Nekoosa had doubled in population to 1,500. The town population never rose above 2,700.

화요일에, 12월 27, 1910, Friedrich wrestled “Babe” Abel of Madison, Wisconsin in a best two-out-of-three-falls match. The men wrestled at Brook’s Hall in Nekoosa.

One of the myths about Friedrich is that Friedrich changed his name to Lewis to keep his parents from finding out that Friedrich was wrestling professionally. 그러나, Friedrich wrestling in his hometown argues against this theory. It is impossible to believe Friedrich could keep his profession a secret from his parents after wrestling under his real name in his small hometown.

Friedrich wrestled a legitimate contest in this match. Friedrich needed one hour, fifty-five minutes to pin Abel for the first fall. Even with a 15-minute intermission, Friedrich only need forty-nine seconds to slam an utterly exhausted Abel for the second fall and match in two straight falls.

에 1913, Friedrich changed his name to Ed “Strangler” Lewis in honor of the original “Strangler”, 에반 루이스. Evan Lewis was a fellow Wisconsin native, who was born in Ridgeway, Wisconsin and lived in Dodgeville, Wisconsin.

Friedrich started using Ed “Strangler” Lewis when he travelled to Kentucky to wrestle in early 1913. From that point until his retirement, Friedrich wrestled as Ed “Strangler” Lewis. 1920 년대, Lewis earned more money from professional wrestling than any other professional athlete not named Jack Dempsey.

에 1910, Friedrich was just an up-and-coming local star. Grandiose things were in store for the Wisconsin native.

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Sources: The Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin), 12월 28, 1910, 피. 4

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